AMD Radeon HD 7670M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7670M and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7670M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 5x more pipelines: 480 vs 96
  • 2.4x better floating-point performance: 576.0 gflops vs 240 gflops
  • Around 40% lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 28 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 469 vs 381
  • Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 81 vs 69
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3341 vs 3123
  • Around 7% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3341 vs 3123
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 February 2012 vs 7 January 2010
Pipelines 480 vs 96
Floating-point performance 576.0 gflops vs 240 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt vs 28 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 469 vs 381
PassMark - G2D Mark 81 vs 69
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3341 vs 3123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3341 vs 3123

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 1249 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 16 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
  • 5.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8210 vs 1394
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1249 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 16 GTexel / s vs 14.4 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 8210 vs 1394

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7670M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
469
381
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
81
69
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
1394
8210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3341
3123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3341
3123
Name AMD Radeon HD 7670M NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M
PassMark - G3D Mark 469 381
PassMark - G2D Mark 81 69
Geekbench - OpenCL 1394 8210
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 2.47
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 210.901
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1228
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2194
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3341 3123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1228
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2194
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3341 3123
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7670M NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Thames GT215
Launch date 17 February 2012 7 January 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $629.99
Place in performance rating 1410 1412
Price now $629.99
Type Laptop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 1.48

Technical info

Core clock speed 600 MHz 1249 MHz
Floating-point performance 576.0 gflops 240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 480 96
Texture fill rate 14.4 GTexel / s 16 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 20 Watt 28 Watt
Transistor count 716 million 727 million
CUDA cores 96
Gigaflops 360

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs DisplayPortLVDSHDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIVGA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-II
Laptop size medium sized large
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3, (GDDR5) GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management 8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI